This is a great initiative. Would love to see an "official" community organisation.
Some things I think are particularly important on the content side: a) Maintain and improve the clojure.org website as the "front page" for the community b) Produce "official" user guides and documentation for Clojure (and key contrib libraries, as appropriate) c) Maintain a "curated" list of recommend tools / libraries / frameworks (ideally with some expert commentary on when they should be used). should include stuff like Ring etc. d) Maintain a directory of links to other useful content (videos, tutorials, tools like cross-clj etc.) All of these I feel are very important for continued Clojure adoption. There are a lot of good resources already, but they are quite fragmented and difficult for a beginner to navigate. From the point of view of engaging the community to held develop all this content, I strongly believe an "official" organisation would be much more likely to attract good content contributions. On the administrative and operational side, I think the organisation could take over some key tasks (I'm assuming the people who currently do this would be willing to either hand these over or become part of the organisation team): a) Maintaining CLAs b) Development process and tools (Github org, clojure-dev, JIRA etc.) c) Conference sponsorship d) Programmes like GSoC etc. Just some ideas, hope they are useful! On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 06:02:50 UTC+8, Daniel Solano Gómez wrote: > > Hello, all, > > I've brought up the idea of some sort of Clojure community organisation > a few times on this mailing list. The ideas is to help grow the Clojure > community by doing things like supporting GSoC students, run > infrastructure like Clojars, help run conferences, etc. I have decided > to start moving forward and apply for fiscal sponsorship from the > Software Freedom Conservancy and Software in the Public Interest. Those > things take time to work themselves out. In the meantime, I appreciate > any input/feedback about what this org should do or what it should look > like. As such, I have posted a page on the community wiki to start > braainstorming and discussing ideas > <http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Community+Organisation>. > > > A big thank you to everyone. Participating in this community has been a > very positive experience for me, and I would love to see it to continue > to flourish. I appreciate any help or advice on how to make this > initiative succeed in supporting the community. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
